Status updates

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Austin,

Could we please make sure to include this bug for 7.8.3?

  https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9078

The ticket already includes a patch that solves the problem for us.

As remarked by Levent, this bug will probably affect all EDSL that use Andy’s StableName-based observable sharing trick.

Cheers,
Manuel

Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>:
> Hello all,
> 
> It has been another slow week here, and there wasn't a lot I touched
> in the tree this week. The primary highlights:
> 
> * The AMP battle rages on! It turns out the addition of `join` to
> `Monad` has had some subtle implications for GND/Roles. See here for
> more: https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-May/004964.html
> 
> * Simon is still reviewing the ORF work, as far as I know. Hopefully
> it will Land Real Soon Now.
> 
> * Patches! Lots of them! I'm reviewing and merging several of them
> right now. In particular, all the ones slated for 7.8.3 are up for
> grabs[1] by me right now, but I do need to double-check some of them
> e.g. on Windows, to make sure nothing breaks.
> 
> * Many branches have been deleted. Something like 20-30 of them, I
> think. Yay! Sorry for the spam to the commits list too, but it was a
> necessary evil.
> 
> * I'm working away at some of the bugs. #7602 is building right now,
> with some nice improvements. That will go into the 7.8.3 branch, so OS
> X users will get a big performance gain, yay!
> 
> * Another bug: #8736. I had a patch for this, but this one is tricky
> to fix because when we load object files, we don't actually know if
> they're static or dynamic. This is encoded in the interface file, but
> there are some tricky semantics about what to do in some cases of
> (legitimately) needing to re-read interface files that are a bit
> subtle. I'll be trying to revive my patch for this today.
> 
> Other than that, there really hasn't been a lot to mention. Please, do
> get down on reviewing some bugs and helping fix them![1] I'm more than
> willing to help in any way I can.
> 
> I'd also like some feedback: what do people think about the current
> list? Are there any of you readers who see one *you* think is truly
> critical? Maybe we can get some input to help narrow the scope if
> needed.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=infoneeded&status=merge&status=new&status=patch&group=status&milestone=7.8.3
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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